Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023
''Epic and marvellously entertaining... There''s a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back''
FINANCIAL TIMES
''Magnificent... I want to press a copy on everyone I know''
NIGELLA LAWSON
''Epic, magnificent, beautiful... I couldn''t put it down''
PHILIPPA PERRY
''Jewel-like clarity... exceptional''
RICHARD COLES
''Exquisite writing [and] a triumphant, elegant ending''
MAIL ON SUNDAY
''An intelligent family saga... ambitious and moving and funny''
TESSA HADLEY
It''s 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it''s life.
The adventure leads to flight, emigr
